Freight-car door and hanger.



PATENTED AUG. 11, '1808 DE WITT c. EDMONDSON.

FREIGHT GAR DOOR AND HANGER. i

APPLICATION FILED APB.27, 1906.

3 SHEETS-SHEET l.

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IN VENT OR.

. AQTTORNEK N0- 095,0s0. P'ATENTED 1100. 11, 1908. 111: WITT 0.11011011110011. 11131011101111 DOOR AND HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED APB..27, 1906.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

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N0. 895,988. PATENTED AUG. 11, 1908. DE WITT G. EDMONDSON.

FREIGHT GAR DOOR AND HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED APR 27 1906 a SHEETS-SHEET a.

INVENTOR- ATTORNEK WJTNESSE-S:

.soN, a citizen of the United on WITT c. EnMoNDsonor isvANsvrLLE,INDIANA.

FREIGHT-can noon AND HANGER.

No. soaese.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 11, 1908;

Application filed April 27, 1906. Serial No. 313,937.-

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known? that I, DE WITT C. EDMOND States, residing at Evansville,in the county of Vanderburg and State of Indiana, have invented new anduseful Improvements in Freight-Car Doors and Hangers; and I do declarethe'following .to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters and figu-re's of reference marked thereon, which form a part ofthis specification.

This invention relates to railway freight cars, of the type fhatis knownas box cars, the invention having reference particularly to the doorsand the hangers thereof.

Objects of the invention are to provide improved car doors and hangersthat may be relied upon to operate freely; to provide hangers whichshall prevent loss of doors in transit and which willnot be liable tofracture in the severe service incident to the movement of cars, and toprovide hangers that will beadapted to be made mainly of Y. larlydescribed wrought or rolled iron, to the end that economylIlCOl'lSbI'llClJlOIl and maintenance of car ,doors may be attainedinthe highest degree.

- With the above-mentioned and minor objects in view, the inventionconsists in a car provided with doors of improved construction withreference to the supporting and guiding parts thereof,- a door havingimproved locking and latching devices, and improved and novel supportsand guides for the doors; the invention consisting further in the novelparts and in the combinations and ar rangements-of parts, as hereinafterparticuandreferred to in the appended clainis- Referring to. thedrawings, Figure 1 is a fragmentary side elevationof a box-car bodyhav1n a t1"l1t,(l()01 and a ventllatin door '5 l h --mounted thereonin'open positions, all constructed-substantially in conformity to theinvention;-Fig. 2, a fragmentary sideelevation of the car body equippedwith the hang ers and attachments modified for a single door, the latterbeing omitted from the view; Fig; 3, an inside elevation of the tightdoor detached frOmthe car Fig. 4, a side elevation of one of theimproved'do'or stops; Fig. 5, atraiisverse sectional view of the doorstop taken approximately-at the middle portion thereof; F' ofthefastening eyes of the doors; Fig. 7, a fragmentary verticalsectionalView on the 1g! 6,8. perspectivcvicw of one line A-A in Fig' 1;horizontal sectional view on the line B-B in Fig. 1; Fig. 9, afragmentary vertical sectional view on the line C- C in F ig. 1; Fig.

10, a fragmentary vvertical sectional view showing the lower part of thedoor and shoe the car body; b, the siding; c, the car floor;

(1, the roof; and e and f, the door-posts at opposite sides of a doorway of the car, all, of ordinary construction.

In the practical embodiment, the invention includes a lower door rail Fwhich is composed of rolled metal and suitably se cured against thesiding b opposite to the side silla, the rail being so formed as to havean inclined guide side g adjacent to the siding, a narrow top h, and anouter inclined guide side 0'. extending downwardly from the top h, sothat in the cross-section of the rail it resembles'that of the frustumof a cone.

The top ft of the rail has a suitable number ofv aperturesj therein inwhich rollers G are arranged and mounted on axles It that aresupported'by the inclined guide sides g and i, the rollers being nearlyincased in the hollow rail with the tops of the rollers slightly abovethe tops 71 of the rail. The side '2 of the rail has a suitable numberof apertures Z therein to receive lock-bolts of the doors.

An upper guide rail H of novel form is provided and composed of rolledmetal, and it is suitably secured somewhat below the edge of the roof (Zto the side of the car body, the rail being so formed as to have aninclined guide lip m extending downwardly, and in some cases aguide-platen having a guide rib p is interposech'as shown, between thesiding b and the rail.

Fig. 8, a fragmentary The lip m of thefrail H has suitable loclebolt'keepers g secured thereto to receive lock bolts ofthe'doorsfl TherailsF. and H are usuallyof suitable I length to extend'across thedoorway'an'd beyond in both directions, so as to accoinnio date twodoors as shown in Fig.1, a tight and t that are formed door I and aventilating door J, one at either side of the open doorway, so thateither door may be moved for closing the doorway. The framing of thedoors may be variously constructed, and each doorhas a groovedbotti'uninwhichis a metal shoe Kformed of rolled metal and bent over soas to form an outer guide lip K of the metal doubled adapted to extendover the side i of thelower rail while the shoe bears on the rollers,G.' The shoe has also an inner guide lip 1* formed of. the 'metaldoubled upon itself and adapted to extend over the guide side 9 of therail F. Also the shoe is provided with a pair of flanges s of the bentup metal and embrace the lower inner and outer sides of the door towhich they are secured for attaching the shoe to the .door. A suitablenumber of lock-bolt guides at are attached to the flange t, and thereare apertures Z in the lip K serving as keepers for the bolts.

The top of each door is beveled and is provided with a face-plate L thatfits and is secured to the beveled ed e of the door and has a flange vextending alon the rear sideof the door, so as to engage t e rib 1)while the beveled faced front of the door engages the lip m of therail'H. A suitable number of lock-bolt guides w are attachedto the faceplate L. I s

In order to efl'ectually retain the car doors on the lower rail and toprevent movement of the doors beyond the ends of the rails to causethem' to become lost in transit, a pair of substantial sto s M and N areprovided and secured in a irm manner to the side of the car body at theends of the door rails, the

stops being alike but applied to the car in reverse order, each stopbeing composed of a wrought bar and having a suitable numberof guidefingers O and also av guide finger P secured thereto, the finger 1?having an eye :1; attached thereto, for assisting in holding the dooropen when the car may be in motion.

At the middle of each door I and J a base plate Q is secured to theouter side thereof, a disk R is pivoted to the plate, andtwo loekbolts Sand S are pivoted to the disk and extendthrough the guides to and wrespectively, the lock-bolt S being projectable through the aperturesland' Z, and the lockbolt S being projectable through the keepers g, forlocking the door in different positions, either closed, partiallyclosed, or open. lever T is secured rigidly to thedisk R and hasa-handle U pivoted thereto that has an opening 2 in its end, there beingan eye y attached to the car body below the plate Q to which the handlemay be locked or sealed, the eye having a holdin plate 15, as in Fig. 6.

The door J is provided with a hook V at an end thereof to engage theeyes; of the linger P that is part of the stop M, and the opposite endof the door has an eye y attached thereto that may be c'ngaged by a hookW A comprising a concavo-convex which is connected to the door I, sothat the two doors may be cou led together. The door I has. also a hookconnected thereto for engagment with the eye a; of the finger I that ispart of the stop N.

When a side of a car is to door, the stop M is placed adjacent to thedoor post a, as in Fig. 2. Itwillbe observed that the door stops. extendfrom the 'rail F to the rail H so that a considerable number of bolts orscrews maybe used to firmly attach the stops to the car body in orderthat the stops may not become loose, the rails and the stops formingtogether a frame in which-the door or doors are securely confined. Thedoors are provided with handles Y.

' In practical use, the doors will inov,e easily on the rollers andshould be hooked'to the stops when open, and con led together wheneither door is closed, an

also be locked by means of the lock-bolts in any position.

The advantageous results attained by the above-described. constructionwill be fully understood as being obvious from the deto say that costcharges for lost doors may be avoided by the use of the invention.-

Having thus described the invention, is claimed as new is.

1. A car including a lower rail having an what of apertures, an upperrail having a plurality of keepers attache thereto, a door mountedbetween the rails and having mounted thereon a pair of lock-bolts proectable into the apertures and the keepers of the rails, stops for thedoor.

2. A car including a lower rail having oppositely-inclined sides theouter one of which has apertures therein, a door provided at the bottomthereof with a shoe having guide lips for enga ement with the incline ofwhich ips has an aperture therein and having .a lock-bolt guide attachedthereto, an upper guide rail for the door, and a lock-bolt mounted o thedoor in the guide of the shoelip and pro1'ectable into an aperture oftheinclined side of the lower rail.

3. In a car door and hanger, the combina tion with a car body havingalower door rail, of a door provided with a s cc on the bottom thereof tocooperate with the rail, the shoe extending under the door' and twooppolip extending against a side of the door as a retainingflange, therebeing two flanges, one at either side of the door and secured thereto.

4:. In a car door and hanger, the combination with a car-body havingapertures therein to receive a lock-bolt, of a door provided with a shoeon the bottom i thereof to cooperate with the rail, the'shoe theyshouldinclined guide side provided with a plurality and.

tailed description of construction; suflice it sides, one

bearing part sitely-extending guidelips formed of the metal of theshoedoubled, one layer ofeacha lower rail with' havinga lateral guide-lipwith an a erture therein, and a lock-bolt mounted on t e door in theaperture of the guide-lip and project-' able into an aperture of thelower rail.

5. Ina car door' and hanger, the combination with a car body having alower rail with apertures therein to receive a look-bolt, of a doorprovided with a shoe on the bottom thereof to 006 erate With the rail,the shoe comprising a earing part extendin under the door and also aflange part at a si e of the door having a look-bolt guide attachedthereto, and a lock-bolt mounted on the door in the lock-bolt guide andprojectable into an aperture ofsthe lower rail.

6. In a car door and-hanger, the combination with a car body having alower rail and a door supported thereby, of a guide-plate secured to thebody and extending behind and also above the door, an 11 per railsecured to the body against the gui e plate and having a plurality oflock-bolt keepers attached thereto, and a lock-bolt mounted on the doorand projectable into either one of the keepers.

7. In a car door and hanger, the combination with a car-body having an uper rail with keepers mounted thereon, of a oor with a face platesecured thereto, a lock-bolt guide secured to the face plate, and alock-bolt mounted on the door in the guide and projectable into eitherone of the keepers.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' DE WITT C. EDMONDSON.

Witnesses: 4

JOHN F. lilARPER, I'IENRY O. LAUER.

